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What is power-based therapy? How does it work? Power –based therapy emerged out of my research on power and the ways that our experiences with power and powerlessness shape our sense of self, influence our behavior and impact our relationships. I felt that it would be important to address issues of power directly and to provide my clients with an understanding of power dynamics and tools for exploring how their power can become constricted leading to power wounds and compromised relationships. Power-based therapy utilizes the framework of the Seven Healing Questions to name power constrictions and create strategies which allow for full use of one’s power. Buy Understanding Power, co-edited by Vanessa Jackson https://www.naswpress.org/publications/practice/understanding-power.html Transforming Powerlessness into Power video clip https://www.academicvideostore.com/video/transforming-powerlessness-power Power: A User's Manual Workbook (free download) Seven Healing Questions and how to use them 1. What happened to you? 2. How does what happened to you affect you now? 3. How, in spite of what happened, have you been able to triumph? 4. What are the external factors that create or maintain the Power Wound (or a personal and/or community sense of injury)? 5. What do you need to heal? 6. What gift have you been able to bring forth from this experience? (what meaning does it have in your life?) 7. What lessons/wisdom can you share with others based on your experience with power wounding and healing? Many thanks to Pemina Yellow Bird for the three original questions and to Makungu Akinyela for the addition of question three. The Seven Healing Questions are used to inquire into your life and your journey. They are tools for helping you to understand how wounding happens and to begin to identify healing strategies. |
Power
n.1. The ability to do something or act in a particular way.
2. the capacity to influence the behavior of others, the emotions or course of events. 3. A right or authority given or delegated to a person or body-political authority or control. 4. physical strength
or force.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
n.1. The ability to do something or act in a particular way.
2. the capacity to influence the behavior of others, the emotions or course of events. 3. A right or authority given or delegated to a person or body-political authority or control. 4. physical strength
or force.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary